On the Series 3 Tivo on the available Channels List I unchecked the SD channel when an equivalent HD channel was available to prevent TiVo from recording SD versions of its suggestions. I did the same thing on my new XL4 and it continues to record suggestions from channels that are unchecked.

How do I discourage the XL4 from picking up suggestions from SD channels?

If it had the suggestion scheduled before you unchecked the channel it will record them because they were already committed, after 2 weeks (the limit of the guide data) it should stop recording SD suggestions.

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If it had the suggestion scheduled before you unchecked the channel it will record them because they were already committed, after 2 weeks (the limit of the guide data) it should stop recording SD suggestions.

I was just going to ask this on a new thread. I will try this on our new P4 and XL4. The SD is driving us crazy as it leaves the 4 tuners in a mess with SD channels we never watch. I guess it will take a while to go through the list! So far we are not sure about these suggestions as they are getting OLD shows that are not on any more as new. So, if we like one that it found, there are no more scheduled anyway!

Yes- grid view. That way you can just fly down the list of channels and eliminate as needed. Banner is probably a unclear term, but the channel name on the left is what I'm referring to.

Great. I have to use grid view. We sure have a lot of SD stations, but I will keep those that do not have an HD equivalent.

Too bad we can not tell the suggestions to ONLY get first run shows. As I said, I hate that what it is recording is so old. I have had THD's for years now and have the Suggestions turned off. My wife said we can keep it on for a month to see what we get but I do not think I will do it much longer.

Tangent: If you're in grid view and scroll to the left and end up with the channels on the RIGHT.. is there a way to swap it back to get the channels on the left without scrolling back to 'now'? It just looks really weird with the channels on the right.

Even better, sort by channel name and it's super easy to cleanup non-hd channels.

Well, I did this and you are correct as it was very easy to see the sd and hd stations. I did have a small issue though as a few stations did not delete...I had to do it twice. Then a few times it jumped to the top of the list again. Still, all seems good now!